BROKEN TO THE SADDLE
A "maverick" is a wild horse that does not run with a herd.
Cowboys break mavericks to the saddle.
George W. Bush (former Andover cheerleader and Harvard MBA) styles himself a cowboy. In one single respect, that is justified: he broke the (former) maverick John McCain to the GOP saddle.
"John McCain: Broken to the Saddle" needs to become the bumper-sticker response to McCain's bumper-sticker claim of maverickiness. Aside from the incidental advantage of being true, it also has the potential to get under McCain's skin in a way that "sidekick" and "voted with Bush over 90% of the time" just can't match.
I know that Obama wants to win on "issues", and he may even be able to do it. But McCain's tame submission to the Bush Republican party line is the biggest ISSUE in this election. If a fake cowboy's saddle-horse can get away with branding himself a "maverick", then the English language, let alone the republic, will have suffered a serious blow.
--TP
Cowboys break mavericks to the saddle.
George W. Bush (former Andover cheerleader and Harvard MBA) styles himself a cowboy. In one single respect, that is justified: he broke the (former) maverick John McCain to the GOP saddle.
"John McCain: Broken to the Saddle" needs to become the bumper-sticker response to McCain's bumper-sticker claim of maverickiness. Aside from the incidental advantage of being true, it also has the potential to get under McCain's skin in a way that "sidekick" and "voted with Bush over 90% of the time" just can't match.
I know that Obama wants to win on "issues", and he may even be able to do it. But McCain's tame submission to the Bush Republican party line is the biggest ISSUE in this election. If a fake cowboy's saddle-horse can get away with branding himself a "maverick", then the English language, let alone the republic, will have suffered a serious blow.
--TP
